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Photos of the week

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Here is a gallery of some of our favourite Irish Times photos from the last week. On Monday Bryan O'Brien spotted some great colour amid rain and autumnal leaves in St Stephen's Green
Photograph: Bryan O'Brien / The Irish Times

On Friday Dave Meehan photographed Carrie English, "fire gardener'" at Dracula's Fire Garden" in Dublin Castle - one of the highlights of The Bram Stoker Festival which runs from Saturday 26th to Monday 28th October. Photo:Dave Meehan for The Irish Times

Also on Friday Liam Cosgrave former Taoiseach spoke on the occasion of the unveiling of a plaque celebrating the birth of WT Cosgrave at Kennys bar 174 James's Street. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times

Also on Thursday Frank Miller photographed the reconstructed heads of three anonymous smokers by artist Heather Dewey-Hagbor for her piece "Stranger Visions" at the Science Gallery in Dublin during preparations for the Exhibition "Grow Your Own" The heads were constructed based on DNA samples takenb from cigarette butts littering the streets of Dublin. The exhibition aims to provoke debate around an emerging approach to genetic engineering known as "synthetic biology". Photograph: Frank Miller / The Irish Times

At Fridays's protest against maternity benefit cuts outside the Dail organised by the National Womens Council of Ireland, were Catherine Mc Gowan and her daughter Sophie from Drogheda.
Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times

On Wednesday evening solicitor Waheed Mudah of Kevin Tunney Firm handing out a press statment outside the Family Law Court in Dublin after the court ruling in the DNA case before the court. Following DNA testing a child was returned to it's family in Dublin.
Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times

Also on Tuesday Senator David Norris had his beard shaved off live on radion on the Ray D'Arcy show on Today FM. He had promised listeners he would shave it if the public voted against the abolition of the Seanad. He wore the beard for 40 years and the shaving was part of a fundraising effort which goes towards the station's Shave or Dye campaign in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien / The Irish Times

And lest anyone forgot to put their clock back Cyril Byrne photographed antique clocks being serviced by Kevin Chellar on Patrick's Street Dublin as a reminder that clocks went back one hour early Sunday morning.
Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times